The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

We have the best government that money can buy.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.